Direction: Mark Robson

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Rod Steiger · Jan Sterling · Mike Lane

Synopsis Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Synopsis An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Edward G. Robinson · Elke Sommer · Anna Lee

Synopsis In The Prize (1963), Nobel laureates gather in Stockholm for the prestigious awards ceremony. Among them is American writer Andrew Craig, a cynical and disillusioned author who struggles with alcoholism. As the festivities unfold, Craig becomes entangled in a web...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Lana Turner · Lee Philips · Lloyd Nolan · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis A story set in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy. Allison, a beautiful high school student and aspiring writer, struggles to grow up under the thumb of her emotionally crippled single...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Curd Jürgens · Robert Donat · Michael David

Synopsis All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Tom Conway · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell · Kim Hunter

Synopsis Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) travels to New York City to find her missing sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks). In her search she discovers that Jacqueline has become involved with a Satanist cult, The Palladists. Having spoken about the Palladists' existence to...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Susan Hayward · Kent Smith · Lois Wheeler

Synopsis After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Frank Sinatra · Trevor Howard · Raffaella Carrà · Sergio Fantoni

Synopsis Von Ryan's Express is an excellent war adventure set in Italy during WWII. The movie is about a group of prisoners attempting to escape to freedom by taking over the train they are being transported on. They are led by...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ina Balin · Myrna Loy

Synopsis Based on the novel by John O'Hara, From the Terrace tells the tale of Alfred Eaton, a man whose marriage is crumbling from neglect as he climbs the ladder of success. From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton,...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · Billy House · Richard Fraser

Synopsis London, 18thcentury. Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Robert Keith

Synopsis A poor and alienated young man (Farley Granger) who is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give is deceased mother an expensive funeral.

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Dorothy McGuire · Farley Granger · Peggy Dow

Synopsis In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Then the Korean War begins, and the Greer family starts to...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Ellen Drew · Marc Cramer · Katherine Emery

Synopsis On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Glenn Ford · Dorothy McGuire · Arthur Kennedy · John Hodiak

Synopsis The story of a murder trial where a Mexican boy is accused of the death of a Caucasian girl. The two-faced attorney (Arthur Kennedy) who takes the boy's case is only interested in defending him so he can exploit his...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Alain Delon · George Segal · Michèle Morgan

Synopsis Lost Command is based on Jean Larteguy's novel "The Centurians" with Anthony Quinn portraying the main character Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy. The film opens with Raspeguy and his paratrooper battalion fighting to the bitter end at Dien Bien Phu in Indo...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Carol White · Paul Burke · Mala Powers · Scott Hylands

Synopsis A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Judy Holliday · Jack Lemmon · Jack Carson · Kim Novak

Synopsis After eight years of marriage, Robert and Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Both start dating other people, but although they try and ignore each...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Richard Dix · Russell Wade · Edith Barrett · Ben Bard

Synopsis Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look good, Stone sees Merriam as a younger version of himself and Merriam sees Stone as the first adult to ever treat him as...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Robert Sterling · Gloria Grahame · Claude Jarman Jr. · John Ireland

Synopsis Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes the girls on to the nearest ranch, where it turns...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ava Gardner · Stewart Granger · David Niven · Jack Lambert

Synopsis Three persons, Susan and Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. Henry is Susan's lover. Since the island is filled with things to eat, they can concentrate on the love triangle between...